ALJAZEERA: Syrian rebels have seized a Syrian military intelligence compound in the southern Hauran Plain near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, rebel commanders said….
Another rebel commander said the aim of the attacks in Western Hauran is to open a new front in the fight against President Bashar al-Assad that would stretch troops deployed in Hauran, cradle of the two-year revolt, and to secure a supply route to the western approaches of Damascus.
Fighting has now spread across most of Syria, and amateur videos on Sunday appeared to show ongoing shelling and an almost total destruction of suburbs of Homs and Damascus… (more)
